In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... In the intriguing Interior: Woman plucking a Duck, Maes uses the simple colour scheme of black, white and red, set off with deep shadows, that dominates the Eavesdropper series. ... There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down at her work and the tense, watchful cat. ... The two pitchers, the prowling cat, and the overturned basket...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She got so embarrassed she jumped up knocked over the cat carrier, the cat jumped on her son's shoulder (who was driving) and they ended up in a ditch. ... For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ... When the mother offered a little black boy a penny the mother of the boy took offence and shoved Julian's mother to the ground. ...

• Word Count: 1004
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

When Desdemona defends her friend and fellow woman, Iago responds, "Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,/Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,/Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,/Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds" (2.1.109). ... If she be black, and thereto have a wit,/She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit She never yet was foolish that was fair;/For even her folly help'd her to an heir There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,/But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. (2.1.127-140) ...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the dark poem "Strange Fruit," author Joy Harjo, explores the difficulties that minorities in the world. Throughout the poem, there is a reoccurring theme of hatred and violence, personified through antagonists, the 'Klu Klux Klan'. The author takes us through the life of a possible African...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He goes so far as to say, "Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires"" (1.4.50-51). ... Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting I dare not" wait upon I would, " Like the poor cat i' the adage? ...

• Word Count: 940
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The woman is in the presence of a maid who is offering her a bouquet of flowers and a black cat at the end of the bed on which she lies; and she is ignoring their presences and is staring seductively at the viewer. ...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. These guys were tough, they were constantly exposed to heat, hard headed, domineering and egois...

• Word Count: 4111
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School